Mary Holland, of Red Lion Street, looked out her window one morning to find part of her garden had disappeared.

A large hole about four-feet deep in water had swallowed up her strawberry patch and was threatening to take up more of her yard.

The appearance of the hole was yet to be explained but Mrs Holland thought it could have been caused by the ground collapsing into a an old well that was buried beneath the earth.

PICTURE: A ‘bloody spectacle’ was set to delight crowds at Boston Grammar School when the pupils put on a performance of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

The Standard went along to see the rehearsals as the characters enacted a dramatic confrontation scene. Macbeth was to be played by Alan Boyce.

Extra police officers patrolling Boston town centre were planned in a bid to wipe out unruly behaviour in the run-up to Christmas. The new measures were called for in the wake of a Saturday afternoon rampage a fortnight previously when youths threw fireworks, sparking off an incident which police described as a ‘free-for-all’.